Dharma Talks

Debra Seido Martin is Zen West's Guiding Teacher. She was transmitted in 2009 by Kyogen Carlson, late Abbott of Dharma Rain Zen Center. Seido is an organic farmer and psychotherapist devoted to the wild and giving space of practice and grace of the land. She carries forward her teacher’s directive to “ordain into your life.”

Tozan’s Five Seasons: Three—Letting Go of the Handlebars

The promise of the third season is whole-hearted practice without an agenda. The third season describes moments of kensho, when we deeply realize the emptiness beyond self. In the bicycle metaphor, it is the moment when we take the hands off the handlebars and know that we keep going. No choreography, no separate self, no words.

Oct 29

Oxherding Picture 3: Seeing the Ox

Openings take us by surprise: "Oh wait! What was that?" Seeing the world as alive, radiant and aware is not something to be engineered...

Mar 27